By Vincent Ujumadu
The Anambra State Home of Meeting Committee on Guidelines, Enterprise, Ethics and Privileges has indicted Hon. Bernard Udemezue, member representing Ayamelum State Constituency, for alleged unparliamentary conduct, inciting feedback on social media, and gross abuse of legislative privileges. The committee has really helpful his suspension for 3 months with out pay.
The committee, chaired by Hon. Ikenga Ofodeme, additionally suggested that Udemezue, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP), ought to subject a public apology and bear obligatory coaching on parliamentary ethics and practices.
The matter arose from a movement of pressing public significance moved by Hon. Tony Muobike and seconded by Hon. Jude Ngobili, which accused Udemezue of utilizing social media to make inciting feedback able to disturbing public peace and bringing the state legislature into disrepute. The Speaker, Hon. Somtochukwu Udeze, subsequently referred the case to the committee for investigation.
In response to the committee’s findings, Udemezue was formally invited to seem earlier than it to make clear the allegations however did not honour the invitation. As a substitute, he allegedly mocked the method and even posted the invitation letter on his WhatsApp standing.
The report cited a number of petitions and complaints in opposition to him, together with allegations of intimidation and threats to colleagues on the Meeting’s WhatsApp group, in addition to petitions from attorneys and personal residents accusing him of threats to life, illegal interference, and abuse of workplace.
The committee additional famous that in his tenure as Chairman of the Home Committee on Homeland and Boundary Affairs, Udemezue allegedly used his place to safe the discharge of suspected cultists and assailants.
It additionally revealed that between June 2024 and June 2025, he was absent from 43 out of 57 plenary sittings and was habitually late when he did attend.
Most controversially, the lawmaker allegedly accused the state authorities of complicity within the kidnap and homicide of the late Hon. Justice Azuka, former member representing Onitsha North I, linking the incident to an alleged impeachment plot in opposition to the governor.
The committee due to this fact ordered Udemezue to publicly apologize to the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Somtochukwu Udeze, and to members of the Meeting—each in writing and throughout his social media platforms—inside 5 working days.
Along with his three-month suspension with out pay, Udemezue was barred from getting into the Meeting Complicated in the course of the suspension interval.
The report additionally referred to as on the Anambra State Commissioner of Police and the Director of the Division of State Safety (DSS) to research the lawmaker’s claims relating to the alleged plot and the homicide of Hon. Azuka.
The committee described Udemezue’s actions as a gross abuse of his oath of workplace and a mock of the establishment of the Home of Meeting, stressing that his conduct had tarnished the picture of the legislature.
“This Home can not condone behaviors that undermine our collective integrity,” the report acknowledged.
The suggestions, signed by Chairman Hon. Ikenga Ofodeme and ten different members, can be offered to the total Home for consideration and doable adoption.
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